District Attorney to Unveil Memorial Quilt during National Crime Victims' Rights Week

District Attorney to Unveil Memorial Quilt during National Crime Victims' Rights Week

The public is invited to observe National Crime Victims’ Rights Week 2019 at the District
Attorney’s annual memorial quilt unveiling at 6 pm on Tuesday, April 9th at the Visalia

Convention Center Charter Oak Ballroom.
 

Since 1981, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week has brought attention to the millions of
Americans impacted by crime and the people who advocate on their behalf. In Tulare
County, the District Attorney has observed the week with the annual unveiling of a
memorial quilt depicting local residents lost to violent crime. This year’s handmade quilt,
the office’s 19th such memorial, will represent 13 people. Quilts from previous
observances will be on display that night and at the Visalia Convention Center from 10

am to 6:30 pm on April 10th.
 

The theme for this year’s National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is “Honoring Our Past –

Creating Hope for the Future.”
 

“For nearly twenty years, this ceremony has embodied the theme of honor and hope for
those taken too soon by violent crime and those they left behind,” said District Attorney
Tim Ward. “In a time when victims of violent crime and their families are unsure of their
standing in our system of justice, for at least an evening they can feel wholly embraced by

those who care, those who remember, and those who share in their lasting endurance.”
 
Both the quilt ceremony and display are open to the public.
 

For more information on National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, visit the Office for
Victims of Crime at https://www.ovc.gov/.